Trill question

[keko]

Any one can explain me this text?, please:

Some joined Trill cannot safely use transporters. To determine if this affects your character, roll 1d6; on 1, the character suffers from this restriction.

this roll is at character creation or each time a Transporter is locked on him?

thanks

[C5]

The way I see it, this roll is only made during character creation, to test whether the character is allergic to transporters or not.
If he doesn't roll 1, he can use transporters at will (like Dax). If he rolled 1, then he has the allergy, and during gameplay he'll have to roll 2 dices each time he uses a transporter, to see if he suffers damage or not.

[tonyg]

Yes the roll is for during character creation. As with a medical condition, the character either has it, or not.

[Doug Burke]

As C5 and tonyg have said, it is only rolled at the time the character is created. You are either susceptible to it or not.

[keko]

Thank you all!

[toadkiller]

Which begs a question from me.

Would you folks actually do this? I can't see basing a major "medical condition" on a character without working that out with the player. I mean that's sort of like saying "Oh, your character only has 1 arm 'cause I rolled a 4".....

If they want to play a character that can't use the transporter than hey that's great and playing an Odan-Trill would be a way to do that. I guess I prefer a less random character generation system.

(all of which is said without having seen the game yet - I'm in Iceland you know)

[keko]

No one of my players has choosen a Trill character, but probably I'll eliminate this restriction if a character wants a Trill without this illness. (Oh, I roll 1, I will erase this character and make another one...)

Other solution is convert this into a flaw for to get one edge in exchange, or to convert this flaw into mandatory flaw for Trill characters in exchange of two edges.

[Imagus]

This one bugged me as it was a little random considering every other species ability is mandatory!

I'm definitely thinking it should be a voluntary flaw, with a corresponding edge pick.

But then I'm having issues with the random number of hosts too!

[keko]

Originally posted by Imagus
But then I'm having issues with the random number of hosts too!

with a low number (1-3) of hosts in CODA generation it's not a big problem.

[Imagus]

Originally posted by keko
with a low number (1-3) of hosts in CODA generation it's not a big problem.

Well, yes and no - my point is that since everything else in the character creation system is chosen (except for attributes and the dice rolling there is optional), why should this be random? It just doesn't quite work for me!

A variation on an edge/flaw system such as being worked on here, would...

[Rixx Telar]

What I will do is to make it a selectable flaw. If the player is willing to take it.

[Calcoran]

Imagus, try this thread for an alternate rule for Trill's hosts: question about Trill's previous hosts

[Imagus]

Thanks Calcoran.

I have actually been following that thread, and was trying to agree with it, without taking the thread too far off topic

[Silverthorne]

The reason it is rolled, in my opinion, is that the players will always decide to not be alergic. if it is a racial flaw that can be chosen, very few will take the flaw, unless it means they get an extra perk, well none of the other racial flaws get a perk. I know this seems to be a flame, but I agree with the rule book, yes i got mine finally, you need to roll for it. That way if the player does not like it, then with the narrators permission he can re-roll stats and make a different character.. which is strictly up to the gm to enforce the rules or ignore them as he/she see fit.

[Imagus]

My take would be that it would be a flaw that gives you an additional edge (as per usual), but was only available to joined Trill. There's no point in giving them the option for a flaw that doesn't give them anything!

Oh, and bearing in mind that we've seen four or five joined Trill (maybe more, I have no idea!) - and only one had the flaw. Does that count as a "very small number" ?

Likewise, additional hosts would be an edge that was only available to joined Trill. The problem as I see it is that a single additional host is not worth the cost of a whole edge...

I do rather like the idea that additional hosts give you various personality flaws that are hangovers from previous lives (such as Jadzia's addiction to raktagino (sp?) - although that would hardly qualify as a full flaw).

Hmm, getting some ideas here - I'll get back to you!